- by Jenny
- Robert Mitchum
This month’s column over at the fabulous Eat Drink Films is about Robert’s Chili. To say Mitchum was a chili head is an understatement. Read all about it and get his recipe here I’m not sure who I fancy more at the moment. Mitchum: or Gable?...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
These are weird but I like them. Alex James from Blur wasn’t keen though as you’ll see from my appearance on Market Kitchen a couple of years ago… Here’s one just about to go in the oven. I couldn’t find...
- by Jenny
- Cary Grant
Oooh, how I wish I could be in Bristol this weekend. They are having a Cary Grant Festival – it looks amazing. One of the organisers Charlotte Croft emailed to ask if I would send Cary’s Mushroom Canapés recipe which I...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
When I told Mr R that Crepes Suzette were on the menu his response was: “I’m not sure if I eat that” but when asked if he knew what it was, he admitted that he wasn’t sure. I said, “you make pancakes, then pour brandy over...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I always feel weird serving guests things from my freezer, it feels like cheating. But I’m so flat out with Joan Crawford at the moment, it’s a Godsend to find so many...
- by Jenny
- Deborah Kerr
Not sure why Deborah calls these scones, they would be cookies to Americans or to us Brits, biscuits. Deborah was English, so she should have known a scone when she saw one. What do Americans call scones, biscuits? All very...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
These are stupendous. I defy anyone to make them and then resist eating at least 6 or 7 before guests arrive. This is a photo reference for the Joan Crawford Cookbook when it comes out in November… I’m working on it like a mad thing to...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
It was the 10th anniversary of my book group last night. 10 years of about 6 or 7 books a year multiplied by about 7 or 8 bottles of wine consumed at each book group dinner = probably around 500 bottles of wine. Ha ha. Last night...
- by Jenny
- Burt Lancaster
I was unusually organised for Sunday’s Silent Stars Cocktails and Canapes party. I had spent hours poring over recipes, coming up with proposed menus, sending recipes over to Nathalie for consideration, making endless lists and spending HOURS on my Ocado home delivery order....
- by Jenny
- Fred MacMurray
When there is a birthday at work I usually make a cake. As my life is pretty chaotic (which actually, I imagine anyone’s life is, in this day and age) I always rack my brains for something I can get up at 6...
- by Jenny
- Eddie Albert, Ramon Navarro, Vincent Price
My September feature for Eat Drink Films is up, and it is all about guacamole this month. I have tested more movie star guacamole than you could shake a chili at over the last few weeks. I am carrying around a guacamole baby alongside the noodle baby...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
You know when you see recipes in a magazine and they specifically say that it’s something that is perfect for a weeknight dinner? Well this one definitely is. I got home at 7, rustled it up for me and my chum Heather, we ate...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
I’m writing this in the “Joan Zone” – Mr R’s name for the writing desk in my bedroom. I wanted to create a space that would help me to concentrate on all the many things I need to do before the book...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
I love this spinach salad. It’s easy peasy, tasty and fairly healthy… Reminds me of the Vincent Price Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon Dressing I have made a few times. Both lovely, although Vincent’s version includes eggs… My recipe for Joan’s Spinach Salad is from...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
Mmmmm – avocado, pineapple, cottage cheese… Delicious! I’m gathering together all photos of Joan Crawford dishes already made and posting them here in the next few weeks. The Joan Crawford Cookbook will be published on Saturday 8th November (see here for a sneaky peek). I...
- by Jenny
- Ralph Bellamy
Well that’s a mouthful and no mistake! I always like a recipe with a slightly weird title so I decided to try this one out for a forthcoming Eat Drink Films article about film star chili recipes. ...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
This is the second in my flurry of Joan Crawford recipe pics. This salad isn’t as photogenic as the Nice Salad for a Squab Dinner but it was almost as tasty. I’m a bit obsessed with mandarin segments after making the previous salad. The tinned...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
This is the first in a flurry of posts about Joan Crawford recipes ahead of the book launch – eek! There are no food photos in the book, just pictures of the lovely Joan, so this is the place for them. First...
- by Jenny
- Jane Wyatt, Jimmy Stewart
I have a new friend in the kitchen. My chums Michelle and Tony are moving to Hastings soon and I won’t half miss them. Luckily I have inherited a whopping great cactus from them to look after. It now resides...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
Oh my days (as the kids say)! The prototype for my Joan Crawford Cookbook arrived on Wednesday and I am so thrilled with it. Would you like a sneaky peak? Here’s the cover: and here is one of the recipe pages: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! I am beyond...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
These are BRILLIANT! I’ve been meaning to have a go at these for years, and I finally got around to it. Partly because a little jar of these have been earmarked as one of my competition prizes. They will be heading to the States...
- by Jenny
- Viveca Lindfors
Did you ever want to change your Christian name? I did, and I have. The name most people know me by (Jenny) is not the name on my birth certificate. But I’m not telling you what my real name is, because that way ridicule lies. When...
- by Jenny
- Warner Baxter
Vic came over for a Rockford Files last night and I had planned to serve up a chilli. I foolishly strayed from the preferred path of matching the recipe to the event. Instead of making a James Garner chilli (which I know from experience is the BEST...
- by Jenny
- Jane Wyatt
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm – this was even nicer than the first time. For this version I used Hammerton’s Oyster Stout aka Pentonville which made for a darker, and for some reason moister, (is moister a word?) bread. I thought it was delicious! Isn’t this a wonderful...
- by Jenny
- Louella Parsons, Movie Star Cocktails
All of the film star recipes I make and write about here have some kind of provenance. They are either something the star claimed to make themselves, or something they stated was their fave thing to eat in a particular Hollywood eating establishment, OR dishes that...
- by Jenny
- Shelley Winters, Uncategorized
Ooh, this is a nice easy one to have up your sleeve (so to speak). I’m a big fan of Shelley. I love her hanky-wringing character in A Place in the Sun. Let’s face it, when your hangdog boyfriend claps eyes on Elizabeth Taylor...
- by Jenny
- Yul Brynner
My second article for Eat Drink Films is live today and you can nip over there for Yul’s recipe. It’s very good – here’s the link to the recipe: Yul Brynner’s Potatoes in Sour Cream and here are a few photos of some I...
- by Jenny
- Yul Brynner
The August recipe is up and it’s absolutely delicious. It’s one of those dishes that whenever I think about it I start licking my lips and thinking, I must make that again. I absolutely loved it. The lovely Charlie has...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I like a rice you bake in the oven, especially when it is baking hot in the kitchen. Mine gets very hot and steamy if there are lots of things on the hob and at the moment in the UK we are having a HEATWAVE. It’s...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
It was my turn to host the book group last week and it is now tradition that I make a 10 boy curry. We didn’t have the 10 boys parading around with the condiments, they were on the sideboard, or the “buffeteria” as Lindsey christened it...
- by Jenny
- Jane Wyatt
It’s been all about the beer this week as the big news is: Hammerton beer has arrived in Muswell Hill! The delightful Prohibition Wines on Fortis Green Road is stocking the family brew. I am DONE FOR! I stocked up a bit and did my first...
- by Jenny
- Yul Brynner
My lovely penpal Margie in Atlanta mentioned ages ago that she’d spotted a Yul Brynner cookbook and I’m not sure why I didn’t get on the ebay machine immediately and buy one. No matter, his card was picked from the pack for recipe of the month...
- by Jenny
- Clark Gable
Hereby follows a salutary tale. Battenburg Belle has told me that we must admit to our failures as well as our successes so here goes. So I bought all the gubbins for Clark’s dish including a LOT of expensive venison. ...
- by Jenny
- Madeleine Carroll
I made a lovely boozy batch of this for the Naughty Habits Strolling Supper Club that Battenburg Belle and I collaborated on a few weeks ago. It was wonderful evening and BB has written about it more eloquently than I can over here. The punch was...
- by Jenny
- Ina Claire
Salad season is upon us. I’m trying to be healthy this week as I’ve been boozing it up and not eating particularly well. So today I bought loads of saladings (as they call them at the Muswell Hill Horticultural Society) and made a lovely fresh...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I was thrilled to get a first prize for my Vincent Price Raspberry Tart. I made it exactly to Vincent’s instructions in the “Treasury”. The only thing I did differently was to use cherry brandy rather than raspberry liqueur as I’d bunged...
- by Jenny
- Alice Gordon
I love goosegogs so when I spotted this recipe for jam I decided it could be a contender for the Muswell Hill Horticultural Society Summer Show. There are only 5 categories in the cookery section in the Summer show, unlike the Spring show...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
The results of the Muswell Hill Horticultural Society Summer Show Cookery Classes are IN. I was awarded one FIRST, one SECOND and one THIRD. Third was for my Vincent Price Blueberry Muffins. Read all about them and get the recipe here…
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- by Jenny
- James Garner
Stop press! James Garner’s daughter Gigi got in touch via Twitter about this recipe. She thinks it may be her grandfather’s recipe rather than her father’s. I am devastated! I knew JG was a judge for the National Chili Championships so assumed that...
- by Jenny
- Diana Dors
Oh the shame of it, like a stake through the heart. The judges at the Muswell Hill Horticultural Society Spring Show thought my fruit cake was “very tasty but just a little dry”. Oof! This post is therefore a note...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Happy National Blueberry Muffin Day! The first of my monthly columns on the lovely Eat Drink Films website is up! Isn’t it lovely? Vincent Price Blueberry Muffins Here’s some I made earlier… Thanks Vincent!
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- by Jenny
- James Mason
Do you have a “to-do” list? Is it massive? Is there something on there that doesn’t get done, for months and months and months? I’m going to try and make my to-do list more like Johnny Cash’s… For me, the thing...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Want to hear the most exciting news EVER? There is going to be a 50th Anniversary Edition of Mary and Vincent Price’s “A Treasury of Great Recipes”. Pass me the smelling salts! Yinzerella over at Dinner is Served alerted me to this, and sent me over...
Call the exaggeration police! This Mile High Lemon Chiffon Pie should be renamed the One Inch High Lemon Chiffon Pie. I was sooooooo excited to get my recipe for the first annual Pieathalon, organised by my cyberchum Yinzerella over at Dinner...
- by Jenny
- Uncategorized
It’s official! The Shellac Sisters smashed it at Glastonbury! Armed with four gramophones and six boxes of 78rpms we trotted down to the Glade each day for 3pm to charm festival-goers with our old-skool tunes. They loved us! Highlights for me were: 1 – first...
- by Jenny
- Uncategorized
I’m going to be DJing with The Shellac Sisters at Glastonbury Festival. No kidding. Come on down and see us if you are so inclined! We’ll be taking four 1920s wind up gramophones and four hundred weight of 78rpm records…....
- by Jenny
- Jackie Cooper
It’s the last of my posts about the cocktails and canapes party – phew! I feel a bit sad and have the song “The Party’s Over” going around in my head… No need to be sad, it was FAB...
- by Jenny
- Bob Hope
This really must be Bob’s favourite lemon pie, I have a recipe for this in 13 different sources. I bet that after a while, every time anyone ever asked him for a recipe he told his secretary to...
- by Jenny
- Dorothy Wilson
This was really lovely. Chunks of chicken in a creamy sauce, cooked up in a double boiler. The kind of “cooked dressing” that seemed to be very popular in the 1930s. It reminded me a bit of a...
- by Jenny
- Juliette Compton
I liked the idea of serving a couple of different finger sandwiches at our party and this loony looking recipe caught my eye. It’s got olives, mustard, butter, hard boiled eggs and some other stuff I...
- by Jenny
- Ginger Rogers
There is no denying that these were a big hit. One minute the plate looked like this: The next minute it looked like this: I didn’t even get one! These were the first thing to get completely scoffed....
- by Jenny
- Bill Boyd
These were the last things I made for the party. The guests were already arriving, and I was already drinking Vincent Price Tonics and New Fashioneds, so I missed part of the recipe. After mixing the peanut butter...
- by Jenny
- Margaret Sullavan
Note to self and everyone else who might attempt this, jelly/jello takes a lot longer to set than you would expect. You have to make this the day before your party and keep shaking it at regular intervals to...
- by Jenny
- Annette Funicello
At the last cocktails and canapés party there was much talk about the word Kebob as opposed to Kebab (which is what we call them here in the UK). At this cocktails and canapés party there was much...
- by Jenny
- Gene Barry
I knew these were good as I’d made them before. I love it when you find all the cinammony pine nuts inside. Julie suggested making them a bit smaller as she found chomping on a whole one a bit difficult. ...
- by Jenny
- Spring Byington
First ingredient in Spring’s ingredient list was “1 pint cottage cheese”. A PINT of cottage cheese? I was puzzling over this measurement and looking at the 600g pot I had bought when Mr R had a bright idea. ...
- by Jenny
- Ginger Rogers
Nathalie made some of this at home and brought it over in lovely bottles with hand made labels. Tres chic and very tasty. Directions were to add water, but as the party progressed, guests diverted from this and...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Some folks opted to have another pink tonic rather than the booze fuelled New Fashioneds but I preferred these of the two. They sure packed a punch. Too busy drinking them to get a good photo… Recipe for these...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
The world cup has just started and hence normal service at Silver Screen Suppers Towers will be interrupted. I’ll be drip-feeding some findings on the third of the recipe testing parties Nathalie and I have thrown whenever I get...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Ooh, ooh! I met my hero on Thursday – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI. Oh it was so exciting! It never would have happened if I hadn’t have been so merry on red wine, and chatting to Heather from Cook Up a...
- by Jenny
- Celia Johnson
A long time ago I changed the “Sent from my iPhone” sign off to: “Sent from the land of the Celia Johnson Chocolate Sponge Cake” and never got around to changing it. When I booked a fishing trip with Stacey aboard the Lady Grace she...
- by Jenny
- Stan Laurel
You know a true friend when they give you a part baked home made baguette the day before you go on your holidays and say: “you can take that for the Company Shed”. Battenburg Belle, Queen of Baking, knows me...
- by Jenny
- Debbie Reynolds
When Mr R told an Italian work colleague where he was going for his holiday (Mersea Island off the coast of Essex) he was told, “Meh, it isn’t very exotica” (in an Italian accent). But you know what? I think it is VERY exotic. ...
- by Jenny
- Liberace
Eggs, butter, cheese, cream… How could it be anything else but delicious? And delicious it was! Yinzerella over at Dinner is Served 1972 was celebrating Liberace’s birthday all week, and I decided to join her from across the Atlantic. Does Liberace deserve a spot beside all...
- by Jenny
- Bette Davis
I’m thrilled to be featured on Emerald Street today. So if you are visiting from there, welcome to the wonderful world of film star dining and drinking! Check out your favourite stars from the side-bar or just have a roam around… As the article mentioned...
- by Jenny
- Yvonne Mitchell
Ooooh Tooona. Chicken of the sea… Sometimes I get a powerful craving for it and when I saw some French beans in my fridge that needed using up, my immediate thought was SALAD NICOISE. I checked out the spreadsheet and I have 3 film star recipes...
- by Jenny
- Doris Day
This was mighty fine. Although Doris’s recipe calls for an Angel Food Cake mix: you can’t get one of those for love nor money in the UK, so in a reversal of all that I have learned via Caker Cooking, I...
- by Jenny
- Doris Day
Do you know that Della Reese song, “It’s So Nice To Have a Man Around the House”? I love it. Especially the bit that goes: “…Just a guy in pipe and slippers Who will share your breakfast kippers And will help you zip...
- by Jenny
- Doris Day
YUM. Mmmm. This recipe was good. Made for Easter Monday when I organised a little celebration of the glorious entity that is Doris Day. She was ninety recently and hearing her on the transistor radio chatting to Michael Ball the other day, she is...
- by Jenny
- Diana Dors
I am on a diet. Boring but true. As I was home alone on Bank Holiday Monday I thought I’d check out what Diana recommended for breakfast on the X-cel Diet. I have much to say about Diana and her diet. In fact, am slightly...
- by Jenny
- Gene Barry
Do you talk in your sleep? I sure do. Mr Rathbone wrote down some things I said last night. The first bit went as follows: Me: I don’t know where to start baby, shall we start with the big first Columbo? Does that have the snow toast...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I won an Oscar last week! Well, the film archiving world’s equivalent of an Oscar. I am the proud recipient of the Focal International Footage Employee of the Year Award. Look how happy I am about it. It’s a bit like winning the Best Actress at...
- by Jenny
- Benny Hill
I am a Hammerton (it’s my surname) and I love beer. Can you imagine how happy I was last Wednesday to be at the soft launch of the HAMMERTON BREWERY?! My genius nephew Lee has resurrected a Hammerton business dormant since the late 1950s,...
- by Jenny
- David Niven
David Niven was plucked from the pack for this month’s recipe of the month and it’s a goodie. I love fish cakes. I like the way David writes a recipe too… I’m going to transcribe his recipe exactly as he wrote...
- by Jenny
- Tippi Hedren
My neighbour (and matchmaker extraordinaire) Chloë has asked me to write something for a pitch she is doing for a publisher. She’s creating a brand new magazine and it sounds like it will rock. I might have a regular column about film star recipes. Am...
